# Domain WHOIS & DNS Lookup (RDAP, Expiry, MX, SPF) (`rakish_bobby_gwr/domain-whois-dns`) Actor

Bulk domain lookup: registration and expiry dates, days until expiry, registrar, status, nameservers, DNSSEC (official RDAP, the successor of WHOIS) plus DNS records (A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CAA), SPF, DMARC and the email provider. For domain portfolio monitoring, lead enrichment and security checks.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rakish_bobby_gwr/domain-whois-dns.md
- **Developed by:** [mustafa kılıç](https://apify.com/rakish_bobby_gwr) (community)
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $1.50 / 1,000 domain looked ups

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Domain WHOIS & DNS Lookup (RDAP, Expiry, MX, SPF)

Look up any number of domains and get their **registration data** (registered or not, registrar, creation, last change and **expiry dates**, days until expiry, EPP status, nameservers, DNSSEC) and their **DNS records** (A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CAA) with **SPF**, **DMARC** and the detected **email provider** (Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Zoho, Proofpoint...).

Registration data comes from RDAP, the official, structured successor of WHOIS run by the registries themselves (server list from IANA). DNS comes from DNS-over-HTTPS. No scraping of WHOIS websites, no rate-limited text parsing: eight domains took under 2 seconds in our tests.

### What you can do with it

- **Domain portfolio monitoring**: schedule it monthly and alert on `daysUntilExpiry` below 30.
- **Lead enrichment**: which email provider a company uses (MX), whether it has SPF and DMARC.
- **Email deliverability and security checks**: SPF, DMARC, CAA and DNSSEC at scale.
- **Domain availability**: `registered: false` means the registry has no record of the domain.
- **Due diligence**: domain age, registrar and status of partners or suspicious sites.

### Input

```json
{
    "domains": ["apify.com", "https://www.bbc.co.uk/news", "trendyol.com"],
    "includeWhois": true,
    "includeDns": true
}
```

URLs and subdomains are reduced to the registrable domain (`https://www.bbc.co.uk/news` → `bbc.co.uk`).

### Output

```json
{
    "input": "apify.com",
    "domain": "apify.com",
    "resolves": true,
    "dnsA": [
        "3.160.57.84",
        "3.160.57.31",
        "3.160.57.35",
        "3.160.57.105"
    ],
    "dnsAAAA": [
        "2600:9000:27e9:0:9:a03e:6540:93a1",
        "2600:9000:27e9:8a00:9:a03e:6540:93a1",
        "2600:9000:27e9:7400:9:a03e:6540:93a1",
        "2600:9000:27e9:d200:9:a03e:6540:93a1",
        "2600:9000:27e9:6c00:9:a03e:6540:93a1",
        "2600:9000:27e9:9e00:9:a03e:6540:93a1",
        "2600:9000:27e9:7200:9:a03e:6540:93a1",
        "2600:9000:27e9:4a00:9:a03e:6540:93a1"
    ],
    "dnsMX": [
        "10 aspmx2.googlemail.com",
        "10 aspmx3.googlemail.com",
        "5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com",
        "5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com",
        "1 aspmx.l.google.com"
    ],
    "dnsNS": [
        "ns-1225.awsdns-25.org",
        "ns-1928.awsdns-49.co.uk",
        "ns-449.awsdns-56.com",
        "ns-839.awsdns-40.net"
    ],
    "dnsTXT": [
        "aisle-domain-verification-ymx7gd=j3J4hCmXHIc9R0RNQCfa8xdSf",
        "v=MCPv1; k=ed25519; p=1rDnoEigwTr+4JjG89+sLbdNnswCnLjmaeT34srW53Y=",
        "hubspot-developer-verification=MzZlYjQwZjktZGQ0ZC00MWVhLWJmNWMtYTY0MDI0MjQzNTI4"
    ],
    "dnsCAA": [
        "0 issuewild \"letsencrypt.org\"",
        "0 issue \"letsencrypt.org\"",
        "0 issue \"amazonaws.com\"",
        "0 issue \"digicert.com\"",
        "0 issuewild \"amazonaws.com\""
    ],
    "spf": "v=spf1 a mx include:_spf.google.com include:mailgun.org include:amazonses.com include:19497222.spf05.hubspotemail.net -all",
    "dmarc": "v=DMARC1; p=reject; sp=reject; pct=100; rua=mailto:dmarc-reports@apify.com; ri=604800",
    "emailProvider": "Google Workspace",
    "registered": true,
    "whoisSource": "https://rdap.verisign.com/com/v1/",
    "registrar": "Amazon Registrar, Inc.",
    "registrarIanaId": "468",
    "createdAt": "2009-06-02T17:14:10Z",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-16T16:53:04Z",
    "expiresAt": "2035-06-02T17:14:10Z",
    "daysUntilExpiry": 3135,
    "statuses": [
        "client transfer prohibited"
    ],
    "nameservers": [
        "ns-1225.awsdns-25.org",
        "ns-1928.awsdns-49.co.uk",
        "ns-449.awsdns-56.com",
        "ns-839.awsdns-40.net"
    ],
    "dnssec": true,
    "registrantOrganization": null,
    "registrantCountry": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-11-01T09:49:45+00:00"
}
```

### Pricing

$1.50 per 1,000 domains. Invalid inputs are reported with an `error` field and are not charged.

### Limits

- Some country registries (for example .de, .io, .tr) do not run a public RDAP service. For those domains you get DNS data, `registered` is inferred from DNS, and `note` explains why registration data is missing.
- Registrant names, emails and phone numbers are not collected; most registries redact them anyway. Only a public registrant organization and country are returned when available.

### Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by IANA, any domain registry or Google. It only collects publicly available data; make sure your use complies with the applicable terms and laws.

### Feedback

Missing a record type or check? Open an issue in the **Issues** tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `domains` (type: `array`):

One per line: domains (apify.com) or URLs (https://www.apify.com/store). Subdomains are looked up as their registrable domain.

## `includeWhois` (type: `boolean`):

Registrar, dates, expiry, status, nameservers, DNSSEC.

## `includeDns` (type: `boolean`):

A, AAAA, MX, NS, TXT, CAA, SPF, DMARC and the email provider.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many domains are processed in parallel.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "domains": [
    "apify.com",
    "google.com"
  ],
  "includeWhois": true,
  "includeDns": true,
  "maxConcurrency": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "domains": [
        "apify.com",
        "google.com"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rakish_bobby_gwr/domain-whois-dns").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "domains": [
        "apify.com",
        "google.com",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rakish_bobby_gwr/domain-whois-dns").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "domains": [
    "apify.com",
    "google.com"
  ]
}' |
apify call rakish_bobby_gwr/domain-whois-dns --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rakish_bobby_gwr/domain-whois-dns"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/xhI8SW6og2tt9hu0y/builds/7uCdAcYPQosV4qNYX/openapi.json